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}} | |sublink1=Response to claim: 104 - Deaths in the handcart companies caused "most Salt Lake Mormons" to lay the blame "squarely at Young's feet" | ||
|sublink2=Response to claim: 105 - The book discusses the "Mormon Reformation" | |||
|sublink3=Response to claim: 105 - The author claims that Brigham said that "all backsliders should be 'hewn down'" | |||
|sublink4=Response to claim: 105 - A list of thirteen questions was "conceived by Young and expanded by Grant" | |||
|sublink5=Response to claim: 106 - Blood atonement | |||
|sublink6=Response to claim: 106 - The author claims that "those who dared to flee Zion were hunted down and killed" | |||
|sublink7=Response to claim: 106 - The killing of William R. Parrish, "an elderly Mormon in high standing" | |||
|sublink8=Response to claim: 106 - Castration of a man by Bishop Warren Snow who was "engaged to a woman Snow wanted to take for a plural wife" | |||
|sublink9=Response to claim: 106 - The author claims that the "bloody regime…ended with" Jedediah "Grant's sudden death, on December 1, 1856" | |||
|sublink10=Response to claim: 108 - Surveyor General David Burr "fled for his life" | |||
|sublink11=Response to claim: 110-112 - It is claimed that Parley P. Pratt was killed because he married Elenore McLean when she was not divorced from her husband | |||
|sublink12=Response to claim: 112-113 - In Brigham's speech on July 24, 1857, he said that "This American Continent will be Zion..." | |||
|sublink13=Response to claim: 115 - The author claims that "Indian" massacres that occurred in Utah Territory were actually carried out by "white-faced Indians who used Mormon slang" | |||
|sublink14=Response to claim: 115 - Brigham instructed the people to "hoard their grain" and not sell to any gentiles | |||
|sublink15=Response to claim: 120 - The author claims that "it seem most likely that" Charles "Rich advised the Fancher train to take the Southern Trail" | |||
|sublink16=Response to claim: 121 - Will Bagley claims that "all information about the emigrants' conduct came from men involved in their murder or cover-up" | |||
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Index to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows
A FAIR Analysis of: American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows A work by author: Sally Denton
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This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within FairMormon Answers. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.